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Prestige Liberty Towers in Mumbai
post updated 16 February 2024
Architects: OMA / Iyad Alsaka
Location: Mumbai, India
21 Sep 2021
Prestige Liberty Towers
Home to the country’s oldest stock exchange, its most important banks, and Bollywood, whose film production far outpaces its American counterpart, Mumbai is the engine of India’s economic growth. Today’s Mumbai is the result of a fast-paced modernization that clearly reflects in its urban tissue.
In the heart of the historic textile mills area of Mumbai, Prestige Liberty Towers is located in the Mahalaxmi district formerly known as Girangon, the “Village of Mills’. Central to Mumbai’s economy especially during colonial times, it is now rapidly transforming into a global financial city, buzzing with new transport networks, high-rise residential, retail and office spaces.
OMA’s design takes advantage of the views overlooking the Mahalakshmi Racecourse to the Arabian Sea with two staggered towers of 200 and 290 meters – at 270,000 sqm one of the largest office developments in the city. The rectangular column-free floors, combined with full height curved glass facades, are designed to maximize the office plan efficiency with light filled,
high quality workspaces. The restrained material selection of Indian black basalt and glass provide a counterpoint to the urban surroundings.
The office spaces take into account the increasing importance of decentralized work, providing flexible working areas. Large, open floors of 1,300m² and 1,700m² up to 15 meters deep can be subdivided to accommodate one or more companies on the same floor and enable a variety of working styles and office layouts. The almost three-meter high ceiling and the energy efficient facades with full-height windows allow for more natural light than the average office building. Microperforated acoustic aluminum panels and vibration control ensure appropriate acoustics in the working environments.
Integrating the arrival lobbies to the office towers, a five-story podium houses the 36,000m² retail mall and is elevated to distribute shared infrastructures and allow vehicle circulation beneath the building and the entrance to a fully automated basement carpark. Between the towers a garden roof terrace directly accessed from the coworking, restaurant and shopping areas provide much needed amenity space for connection and relaxation for office users and locals.
Central to the 36,000 square meters retail podium is a generous atrium. The large glazed wall allows for natural light to enter the retail areas, opening the mall to the city. The shear glass facade contrasts with the restrained black of the Indian basalt podium cladding. Inside, the retail mall continues with a simple palette of cool tones with metal panels, back-painted white glass and grey seamless terrazzo inset with brass inlays.
Throughout all levels of the podium a broad range of programs is offered – an open podium, food court, restaurants, cinemas and a theater – to enrich with cultural and public events which extend the life of the building long after the work day is over.
Prestige Liberty Towers in Mumbai, India – Building Information
Architects: OMA
Status: Schematic Design, Construction Enabling Works
Client: Prestige Office Ventures / DB Realty
Location: Dr. E Moses Road, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Program: Offices GLA 210,000 sqm, Retail GLA 36,000 sqm. Total GFA 270,000 sqm. Two office towers
290m and 200m high, five-story luxury retail podium.
Partner: Iyad Alsaka
Schematic Design Phase:
Project Director: Adrianne Fisher, Wael Sleiman
Team: Margarida Amial, Danny Arakji, Deniz Arikan, Dagna Dambiecka, Michael Den Otter, Lucien
Glass, Helena Daher Gomez, Igor Jablan, Daan Ooievaar, Konstantinos Papasimakis, Lukasz Skalec,
Anahita Tabrizi
Concept Design Phase:
Partner: Reinier de Graaf
Project Director: Juliet Moore, Wael Sleiman
Team: Agnieszka Dabek, Fabio Esposito, Mike Fritsch, Tianyi Huang, Ran Huo, Igor Jablan, Alexandra
Paritzky, Antonia Rubic, Iason Stathatos, Natasha Trice
Collaborators
Engineering: BuroHappold
Façade Engineering: Meinhardt Facades
Local Architect: Mandviwala Qutub Associates
Approvals Consultant: Spaceage
Traffic Consultant: TTEC
VT Consultant: Lerch Bates
Real Estate Consultant: Jones Lang LaSalle / Arch Realty
Images: OMA
Prestige Liberty Towers, Mumbai images / information received 210921 from OMA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Location: central Mumbai, western India, South Asia
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